Hello Jeanne and Linda,
As you suggest, if Permelia had brothers with living male descendants surnamed
CARRICO, they would be suitable subjects, while descendants of Permelia herself
would not be (she had no Y-chromosome to pass on). Likewise, Linda, your male
CARRICO first cousins would be suitable test subjects.
And, yes, I agree that you, as the interested party, should be the one to pay
for the testing. I have paid for the testing of my father, an uncle, and three
first cousins, and I've shared in the purchase of testing for half-a-dozen more
distant cousins. It's been worth every penny. Prices for the testing are on
the project's FAQ page:
http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/DNA/Carrico/CarricoDNA-FAQs.shtml
And please note that I'm offering some subsidies for CARRICO testing:
http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/DNA/Carrico/CarricoDNA.shtml#Subsidies
Peter CARRICO is (obviously) not alive, so we cannot test him, but we can test
those who assert a connection to him, either securely or tentatively, "on
paper." If they match, we can know they have the same common ancestor. Once we
have even a small number of purported descendants of Peter matching, we will
know we are on the right track. And I can give an example of how this works
with my STRAUB project (my mother was a STRAUB). We have results returned for
29 members, and eight of them match at a very high level (63/67 to 67/67):
http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/DNA/Straub/StraubDNA-results-HgI.shtml#I1a-AS5
You will need to scroll left and right to view all the results and lineages, and
you can see more of the table at one time if you set your browser's text size to
"small" (in Internet Explorer, click View on the menubar, then Text Size, then
Smaller or Smallest).
At their level of matching, there is simply no doubt whatsoever that these eight
STRAUB individuals have a near common ancestor. Six of them had a paper descent
from the 1733 immigrant, Johann Pieter STRAUB, so for them the test was
"confirmatory." For the other two, the connection came as a surprise, but
connect they do.
Referring still to the STRAUB table, you will notice that six of the lines have
accumulated one or two mutations, since the deduced progenitor. These mutations
will eventually be useful to distinguish these lines as we determine in which
individual the mutation first appeared. As it happens, these STRAUBs are *so*
closely related, three of us have opted for testing additional markers (results
now pending), to gain some separation.
I foresee being able to do the same with the descendants of Peter CARRICOE. If
the U.S. CARRICOs are all descended from him, we should be matching nearly as
closely. I say "nearly," because Peter CARRICOE will be a couple more
generations further back than Johann Pieter STRAUB was, and this is good because
it will have allowed for a few more mutations to have accumulated.
I cannot promise you whether you will be to prove every step in your lineage,
but you will be able to prove whether you do or do not connect to others
claiming a descent from Peter CARRICOE. And if enough CARRICOs will test enough
markers, so we can pinpoint every node (every fork in the DNA road), we will be
able to reconstruct a genetic "tree" of our descent.
I hope I've convinced you that DNA testing "will help." :-) If you have
any
additional questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
Diana
-----Original Message-----
From: carrico-dna-bounces(a)rootsweb.com
On Behalf Of Linda Boorom
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 3:19 PM
To: carrico-dna(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [CARRICO-DNA] Maternal line testing
Jeanne,
Did your Permilia have any brothers that had male offspring?
I am in the same situation, it was my grandmother who was a Carrico, but she
did have 2 brothers & there are living male offspring. I am curious as to the
cost of all of this, I almost feel that if I should try to encourage an
offspring
to
submit their DNA, I should be willing to pay for it.
I cannot yet prove my line back to Peter, I can only trace
back to John "Alexander" Carrico who married Mary Sedgwick in Montgomery
Co., MD in 1800 & died 1853-1866 in Martin Co., IN. He lived for a time in
Washington then Casey Co., KY before removing to Indiana. There have been a
lot of
error's in published documents about my Alexander as well as many
of the
other Carrico's, which seems to make it even harder for me to locate who his
parents actually were.
I'm not sure if DNA testing would help or not.
Linda Boorom